or yesterday when the un general assembly condemned this, urged to russia to change course. does any of this matter? are we speaking a language that need means nothing to vladimir putin? he was never in it for the norms. great point. you know, after world war ii, we wrote down our lot of norms. we created the un security council. one of the norms was, thou shall not annexed the territory of thy neighbor, because that s the way world war ii started, if you recall, throughout taxation. and sure enough, he did that in 2014. he did it again just a couple of weeks ago. and then, and unprovoked war with no threat whatsoever to russia from ukraine. that reminds me, september 1st 1989. you re absolutely right, he doesn t care about the norms, but i know about the other part of the way russia fights. which is reckless. we keep using the words,
processing plant. about 16% of our oil goes through there. if it doesn t get landfall there, then it ll cross the bay here. we may get landfall in three or four hours here from now if don t get it here. as far as the winds go, they re starting to pick up. highest winds, of course, over the ocean. now arriving on the coast. to get the 150 to 180 miles per hour winds, almost like a big tornado, you have to go through the eye. wherever the goes is where the extreme wind damage will be. we think it will head up and miss grand isle. we think the eye will miss the new orleans area. they ll get the hurricane gusts but not the devastating eye there. here s the latest from the hurricane center. it s moving at 13 miles per hour. that s at zeent clip. it s 85 miles due south of new orleans now. the storm is just about as close as it s going get to new orleans. it ll kind of parallel new orleans to the west side as we go throughout the next 12 hours.
thank you for joining us. we have heard from eight candidate on this stage. we have two democratic presidential candidates left. answering voters questions about the climate emergency. scientists tell us we are seeing the consequences of the climate crisis now. that will be cross a massive tipping point if the world warms more than 1.5 degrees celsius. we have already warmed up by one degrees since the industrial revolution. we re half way there already. right now, as you know, the carolinas are bracing for dorian and potentially life threatening storm surge. for the latest now let s go to the cnn weather center. i wouldn t be surprised if this storm reaches category 3 status. it s one mile miles per hour shy of the that. as far as the winds go. with 110 miles per hour winds. it has been intensifying a little bit throughout the late afternoon and evening. gusts of 130.
this. moderate concerns with storm surge and the winds. just to show you the areas of greatest concern for that storm surge. anywhere here with the pink coloring there, that s a storm surge warning. it s a 4 to 7-foot range here. very similar to what you saw in matthew about three years ago. you know, there were some problems. that caused significant damage in a few communities. if we time it toward the high tide and get the water 4 to 7 feet higher than the high tide, we could have some problems. as far as the winds go, i was mentioning i m not too concerned, 64, 62. that s enough to do some minor damage. maybe scattered power outages. i don t think anything too widespread. this is 9:00 a.m. on wednesday near daytona beach and further up the coastline. that s wednesday night. the closest it will get to the south carolina coast will be as we go throughout thursday morning. that s when your highest wins would be. there s a lot of different elements to this, chris. what they experienced
coach beaches coast beaches of florida. charleston, georgeton, myrtle beach, wrightsville beach. moorhead city. we could get a landfall here. by then it would be around a category 1 or a category 2. they still obviously can get some damage from those. so here is kind of how i m looking at it. florida impacts, moderate storm surge concern. as far as inland flooding and winds go, i don t think we re going to see a lot of significant damage not with that offshore track. our friends in georgia, same thing for you. storm surge. i don t think the high winds are going to quite get into the georgia coastline. there is a little better chance that the higher winds could get into areas of south carolina, especially myrtle beach toward the north carolina border. i have wind possibility impacts in the moderate range along with the storm surge. i don t think the rainfall is going to be too big of an issue there. north carolina, very similar to